Verse 3
Proverbs 5:3
Literal Standard Version
3
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, || And her mouth is smoother than oil,
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֤י נֹ֣פֶת תִּ֭טֹּפְנָה שִׂפְתֵ֣י זָרָ֑ה וְ/חָלָ֖ק מִ/שֶּׁ֣מֶן חִכָּֽ/הּ
English Translation
For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
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Chapter 5 Context
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My son! Give attention to my wisdom, || Incline your ear to my understanding,
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To observe thoughtfulness, || And your lips keep knowledge.
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For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, || And her mouth is smoother than oil,
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And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, || Sharp as a sword with mouths.
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Her feet are going down to death, || Her steps take hold of Sheol.
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The path of life—lest you ponder, || Her paths have moved—you do not know.
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And now, you sons, listen to me, || And do not turn from sayings of my mouth.
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Keep your way far from off her, || And do not come near to the opening of her house,
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Lest you give your splendor to others, || And your years to the fierce,
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Lest strangers be filled with your power, || And your labors in the house of a stranger,
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And you have howled in your latter end, || In the consumption of your flesh and your food,
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And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,
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And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, || And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.
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As a little thing I have been all evil, || In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”
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Drink waters out of your own cistern, || Even flowing ones out of your own well.
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Let your fountains be scattered abroad, || In broad places streams of waters.
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Let them be to you for yourself, || And not to strangers with you.
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Let your fountain be blessed, || And rejoice because of the wife of your youth,
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A doe of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy you at all times, || Magnify yourself in h...
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And why do you magnify yourself, || My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woma...
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For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, || And He is pondering all his paths.
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His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
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He dies without instruction, || And magnifies himself in the abundance of his folly!
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